FC Bayern without home-grown Thomas Müller? Almost unimaginable. But the offensive player actually considered leaving the club. However, his wife vetoed it.
He went through the youth of Bayern Munich, played for the club’s U17 and U19 teams and rose to the pros in 2009. Ever since then Thomas Müller 599 games for the record champions. The Munich without him? A strange idea. But the offensive player thought about the club in the direction Premier League to leave.
So there was in 2015 from then Manchester-United-Trainer Louis van Gaal Efforts to bring Müller to the island. This is what Christian Falk writes in his new book “Bayern Insider”, an excerpt is available to “Bild” in advance. Van Gaal was a coach at the company from July 2009 to April 2011 FCB, he and Müller started practically with the professionals in Munich.
Manchester United has offered 100 million
According to the reporter, there were several phone calls between the two parties. At that time, Müller still had a contract with Bayern until 2019. Manchester United would have paid the offensive man 20 million euros a year – a sum that was then Robert Lewandowski in the Bundesliga earned.
A transfer fee of 100 million euros is said to have apparently been promised to the club at the time. In August 2015, according to Falk, Manchester United made an initial offer by fax. But Müller refused. Van Gaal confirmed this to the reporter in 2020: “I tried to bring Müller to Manchester in both the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons.”
Then the Dutchman added: “In 2015 it would have been possible if his wife had been a bit more open to you Transfer would have been abroad. At least that was the reason Thomas told my assistant Marcel Bout, who had had all the conversations with him, why the transfer had been rejected. “Müller is still with FC Bayern, his current contract runs until 2023.
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